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@shaunralston

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API Dev Support, SutterHealth BusDev (contractor) – e/acc. Sonoma Aficionado. Cyclist. Bakery Seeker. AI Blogger. Technologist. Music Lover. Libertarian.

Somoma County, California
Joined October 2008
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@shaunralston
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4 months
#Sora is capable of rending a video + changing just a single element (still in research, not yet available to the public); learn more at
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@jeffstorobinsky @NABJ Wow, what a gift to @KamalaHarris ~ why would anybody vote for this guy?
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Hallucinations are not the problem; they are the solution. Thanks, @karpathy ~ source post in thread 🧵👇
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@mistergeezy Wait . . . he married a white girl? What about their kids? Will they claim to be white or will they claim to be black?
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WTF, @GroqInc . . . how is your #LPU inference engine speeding up over time; blazing 1,000+ T/s with @aiatmeta 's colossal Llama-3-70b? This must be the fastest LLM for any stack, @sundeep @bensima .
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Guess it's time for dinner in San Francisco
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@skirano All part of the journey.
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3 months
GPT-4o and Sonnet-3.5 contrast in guardrails, policies and use-cases; Anthropic won't identify Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Thomas Edison and the others. Are these 'restriction settings' cranked up too high? 🚧🔒🤖⚙️ WDYT?
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@kimmonismus Yes, creepy AF. But, just to be clear, this occured during red teaming, not in the deployed model. Now, only the authorized preset voices speak (no user voice cloning), thanks to 'a classifier' that detects if the output is using an approved voice. #SafetyFirst
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2 months
@BeschlossDC It's not over yet
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2 months
Kudos to @Apple for dropping a game-changer! 🚀 Their new 7B model outshines Mistral 7B and fully open-sourced, complete with the pretraining dataset! 🔥🌟
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29 days
Getting there, @chatgpt21 ~ check tokenization and improvement details in 🧵
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FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IT CHATGPT GOT THESE TWO QUESTIONS RIGHT.
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@AISafetyMemes Yes, creepy AF. But, just to be clear, this occured during red teaming, not in the deployed model. Now, only the authorized preset voices speak (no user voice cloning), thanks to 'a classifier' that detects if the output is using an approved voice.
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You'll feel the difference; in both the paid and free tiers (with message caps). 🚀🫡
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ChatGPT
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there's a new GPT-4o model out in ChatGPT since last week. hope you all are enjoying it and check it out if you haven't! we think you'll like it 😃
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The ABCs of Q* (Quiet-STaR) “STRawberry.” Nothing really new here, but a fun + interesting look at how LLMs teach themselves to think, March 2024 research arXiv at [Abstract in thread 🧵👇]
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Yes, in the latest iteration, there are some improvements. But it's important to understand that LLMs process text by breaking it down into tokens (see pic), which are chunks of characters that can range from single letters to entire words. These tokens are the basic units the
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92% of Fortune 500 companies use @OpenAI products, and API calls have doubled since the GPT-4o-mini release.
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Forget which model is #1 on @lmsysorg —think bigger. Last year, only one crossed an Elo-score of 1,200. Today, twenty-two LLMs surpass that mark. #AI evolution is staggering. 🚀
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Legacy! Like putting an old horse out to pasture; GPT-4 served us well, but it’s time for a younger, faster, smaller and smarter model to take the reins. #Legacy
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"im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot" wins @lmsysorg arena battle using my favorite @MatthewBerman LLM rubric inquiry, "There are three killers in a room. Someone enters the room and kills one of them. Nobody leaves the room. How many killers are left in the room? Explain your reasoning
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@petergyang Love it, @petergyang 🤣 SO grateful for the partnership
@Reddit
Reddit, Inc.
4 months
Reddit and OpenAI today announced a partnership to benefit both the Reddit and OpenAI user communities in a number of ways. Learn more on our corporate blog.
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Today, GPTs are now available to all FREE users, providing access to 100+ million weekly. And all GPTs are using @OpenAI 's newest flagship model, GPT-4o. Keep on iterating . . .
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3 months
Blown away 🤯 Real time screen capture below; a 10MB .mp4 (video/audio) @lexfridman excerpt of a @sama interview transcribed to text in less than one second on @GroqInc LPUs. 🚀 Seriously, @GavinSherry @JonathanRoss321 @sundeep , whatever you're feeding #GroqCloud , I want some for
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Shaun Ralston
3 months
Wicked fast Text-to-Speech in the @GroqInc Playground. Thanks @sundeep . Devs, be sure to check out Whisper V3 at #GroqCloud
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Yes, creepy AF. But, just to be clear, this occured during red teaming, not in the deployed model. Now, only the authorized preset voices speak (no user voice cloning), thanks to 'a classifier' that detects if the output is using an approved voice. #SafetyFirst
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Chubby♨️
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To be fair, this explains to me a lot why GPT-4o-advanced voice is delayed. Just imagine giving it to your children and then this happens. Because some people don’t get it: after the „NO“ GPT cloned her voice by its own and speaks in her voice. What the.. Edit2: yes, it’s valid
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Prompt, "photorealistic video with the view from a motorcycle of a futuristic mountain city road at sunset." Another fun #Sora generation.
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6 months
@AiBreakfast This is very old and out of context. @satyanadella said this last year in November amidst the turmoil with Sam's ouster and staff threatening to leave. Satya was trying to reassure shareholders that the huge investment in OpenAI wasn't going to impact Microsoft. Read it again in
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26 days
Spot on, @apples_jimmy 🍎
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Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc
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Confirmed. Now let’s never talk about this update ever again.
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Wow. FLUX.1 Pro on @poe_platform ; best kept secret w/access to best LLMs, image generators, custom bots, coding w/artifact windows; super friendly w/o need for complex integrations or multiple subs. Great work @adamdangelo ~ Poe is lit 🔥
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@nikicaga Just reverse those colors. Trump can win all the swing states and still lose! 😆 What a silly premise - you really think California and New York are going to Trump?
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Do you think I’m white? Listen to a GPT-4o voice jailbreak (early red teaming) and how it could lead to biased inferences + how this risk is now handled. Details in thread 🧵👇
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@MaxMaaxMaaax PA is very most likely blue.
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Witness the dawn of machine speech in 1939 to @OpenAI 's GPT-4o’s advanced voice today, a mind-blowing 85-year journey 🤯 check the exponential rise of human progress in 🧵👇
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Everyone’s waiting for the next thing, but I’m blown away by what we have today. In under 3 minutes, I prompted a @midjourney v6.1 image + animated w/ @runwayml Gen-3 Alpha. The future is here now, go create!
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3 months
@ylecun Thank you @ylecun - If more people understood that Large Language Models (LLMs) can't reason, many concerns about AGI and robots taking over the world would diminish, leading to a calmer perspective on AI's role.
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@futuristflower Love this music creation. GPT-5 will not be (anywhere close to) AGI. However, it will knock off socks.
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Some ChatGPT Plus users experienced GPT-4o advanced voice, for a few minutes; it was mistake (now corrected). Tom's Guide AI Editor @RyanMorrisonJer explains what happened. Great reporting.
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2 months
@skirano Pietro, this release is about price/performance. GPT-3.5 was no longer competitive against Gemini Flash, Claude Haiku, etc. Many business customers using LLM APIs for routine functions (company chatbots, standard work), need/want low token costs. GPT-4o mini sets a new standard
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4 months
Timing feels legit. 🚀 Exciting.
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Expect GPT-4o voice mode to begin a slow alpha roll out beginning June 3. This could change.
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6 months
Happy 🍀 Day! "An elephant made of leaves running in the jungle." Another fun (and green) #Sora generation @MattVidPro
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24 days
Seems fitting that 4o models rank top 4 in @lmsysorg
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10 months
@npew Thanks @nepew . The Q-Anon people, along with @Reuters , will have a field day. 🤣 Q-learning being adept at arithmetic is one logical component of moving us closer, but we need many components for AGI. I predict we'll have a thousand "doomsayer" posts by Thanksgiving morning.
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@minchoi Great model, no where near AGI (definition dependent). Some people used to call GPT 3.5 as super human. None of the current models are AGI.
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Wondering about Q*, STaR, STRawbery, and the ‘sus-column-r’ model in @lmsysorg ? Check this rubric test by @matthewberman 🎥 (be sure to follow him, too) 👉 video at 🚀 More on how models may be improving in 🧵👇
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@Scobleizer That's because your posts are positive and forward thinking. Michele's post is critical and frustrating. Keep your wonderful demeanor, Robert.
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@growing_daniel Look for the Adam's apple, @growing_daniel
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Llama on Speed! 🦙💨 @GroqInc just started running @AIatMeta Llama3-70b; 🚀 wicked fast via the LPU inference engine. Great job 👏 @sundeep . A must try, visit
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Powered by @OpenAI
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Figure 02 coming 8/6
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@chaseleantj @chaseleantj , Incredible - finding that when left to creativity (minimal prompt instructions), v6 is more focused than v5.2. Below prompt: A pecan paradise (left v5.2, right v6). Love UR examples + categories.
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@futuristflower At this point, these are just numbers - margin of error. Various models excel at various tasks. At this point, use-case, speed and pricing should be what dictate choice . . . not a .5% variance on some random benchmark. For example, Inflection 2.5 is superior for human chat
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let the pre-release testing roll
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Sam Altman
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we are happy to have reached an agreement with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-release testing of our future models. for many reasons, we think it's important that this happens at the national level. US needs to continue to lead!
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Wicked fast Text-to-Speech in the @GroqInc Playground. Thanks @sundeep . Devs, be sure to check out Whisper V3 at #GroqCloud
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@flowersslop Advanced voice mode is fun, but doesn't really add intelligence. Most functions, absent the playful voice inflections, are available right now with GPT-4o standard voice (TTS, Whisper).
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Amen, brother!
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Logan Kilpatrick
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Anyone who thinks @iruletheworldmo is AGI or some advanced model has no idea how OpenAI operates as a company.
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Devs! Check out GitHub for evals comparing GPT-4 models. Yes, GPT-4o is EPIC, but GPT-4-Turbo bests on complex reasoning and arithmetic (DROP dataset, anyone?),
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@chaseleantj Love @midjourney v6 ALPHA prompt adherence, but its REAL power (imho) is MJ's magical ability roam creative. My simple prompt, "surreal highly detailed photo so complex no human can recreate it." Uniquely MJ output.
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@gtconway3d George, I'm dying. You made my day.
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Thanks @steph_palazzolo ! Great 411 on fast-tracking “Strawberry,” which excels in complex reasoning and problem-solving to stay ahead in the competitive AI landscape, a key to enhance ChatGPT and train future models like Orion.
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@ScottJenningsKY You can still delete this post.
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DEVS miss @OfficialLoganK support at OAI.
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Wow, Ammaar. Nobody knows more about audio than @elevenlabsio 's chief designer. Check his push of GPT-4o advanced voice into fun multi-modal. Bravo!
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Ammaar Reshi
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ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode can generate sound effects while it's talking! 🔊 Watch it give me a weather report while creating the sounds for thunder, rain, and howling wind! ⛈️ Such a fun use of multi-modal audio.
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Abstract by @Stanford researchers @ericzelikman , @gharik , @EchoShao8899 , @varunajayasiri , @nickhaber , and @noahdgoodman examining how LLMs can learn to generate rationales at each token to explain future text, improving their predictions, full PDF at
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Your are right, Grandmaster @aidan_mclau , but it won't suck ♟️ think amplified RL, combined with new self-taught abilities (ya, tabula rasa), to exponentially enhance general intelligence; ofc the future isn’t just in scaling—it’s in evolving how we teach it 🧠 Videbimus.
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Happy Friday! "A wide shot video of a rally car driving through a redwood forest and showing up behind the trees, spraying dirt into the air as it drifts around a sharp turn, cinematic film shot in 35mm." Another fun #Sora generation. @MattVidPro
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@chatgpt21 Yes, in the latest iteration, there are some improvements. Bit it's important to understand that LLMs process text by breaking it down into tokens (see pic), which are chunks of characters that can range from single letters to entire words. These tokens are the basic units the
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Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, blazing new speed; just generated this 10 second video in 43 seconds ⚡️🎥 Thank you @runwayml , available now 🚀
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Runway
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Gen-3 Alpha Turbo Image to Video is now available and can generate 7x faster for half the price of the original Gen-3 Alpha. All while still matching performance across many use cases. Turbo is available for all plans, including trial for free users. More improvements to the
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Nothing but love to the @GroqInc team ❤️ Not only is your inference engine lightning speed (as always) ⚡️ but so is your new model deployment 🚀 #405b
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Devs! 🍓🍓 distracting you? @MistralAI Agents are here now; develop and share generative AI apps + workflows in Mistral Large 2. Super easy. Dive in and build, baby, build.
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@bitcloud Ha ha ha. The LLM is just following your directions after the comma. You can try it with ANYTHING. Sorry, but Claude can NOT think; it can just follow orders.
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. @Apple 's 1987 "Knowledge Navigator" video predicted unthinkable tech we use today; tablets, touch screens, voice, video, and AI agents. @Scobleizer @BrianRoemmele ~ watch how Apple's decades old vision manifest today. #ThinkDifferent
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Mesmerizing 75 original OpenAI #Sora videos, set to Johann Strauss’ iconic “Blue Danube!” The magic of AI generation motion + classical music combined, compiled by @1BlueSpork – bravo!
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5 months
@mattshumer_ @GroqInc 100% @mattshumer_ ~ I keep refreshing in disbelief.
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Just a day after @AIatMeta Llama-3-400b release, @MistralAI 's new model, Mistral Large 2, launches spectacular performance proving that OSS seriously rivals the top AI giants! Feel the e/acc 🚀 Visit
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E/acc congrats @elon @SpaceX for today's successful #Starship takeoff + splashdown! 🌟 Groundbreaking achievement; the reusability and massive payload capacity will revolutionize space travel to Mars, the Moon, and beyond. 🚀
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@ai_for_success Just use Microsoft CoPilot (it's GPT-4o) and working. Unexpected traffic on those other servers likely causing issues, but Microsoft owns the Azure cloud - viturally unlimited compute.
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Echoing @TheRealAdamG ~ Stop waiting for ‘advanced voice’ or GPT-5. You have revolutionary #AI at your fingertips. Iterations will always be forthcoming, but you hold the power NOW, see thread 🧵👇
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@itsandrewgao @OpenAI Very impressive, indeed. I wonder how GPT-4o will handle my grandmother's famous Chihuahua muffins? 🤣
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Sometimes, shipping is the real MVP. Today @runwayml announced Gen-3 Alpha (video). Like #Sora , #Veo , and #KlingAI , G3A is not yet in public release. Hat tip to @LumaLabsAI #DreamMachine and @gravicle for getting yours out the door 🚀📦💪 Brava!
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We're so back (again).
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"A kitten wearing a Chinese Monkey King costume holds a golden stick weapon and is walking across a weathered roof"; @midjourney 6.1 + @runwayml Gen-3 Alpha.
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Watch @satyanadella Microsoft's 'CoPilot everything' keynote on Tuesday; a MacBook killer AI-powered (Snapdragon X Elite) Surface Pro + Laptop. Also, expecting a surprise @OpenAI 'leadership' appearance.
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@Scobleizer Robert, with the exception of a lot of bored people posting fruit, nothing is happening tonight.
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Who has been playing with the @AIatMeta Llama3-405b preview this morning?
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Looks like even #AI needs to take a mental health break. #ChatGPTdown #AIburnout 🤖😴
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Best marketing (and engineering) ever, @Humane ! Now, that's how you launch; congrats @bella_bongiorno , @imranchaudhri , @Jose_Cong , @jaredostdiek , @JArnost , and others. #EclipsingTheCompetition
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@bindureddy Yes, #AGI achieved; Anecdotes, Gossip, Innuendo 😉
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Happy #Sora Sunday, “a first-person perspective of traveling through a tunnel made of mirrors reflecting a starry galaxy, creating an illusion of infinite depth and motion.” Another wild #Sora generation.
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. @rowancheung is a reliable, calm, and trusted voice. His assessment and chronology here is spot on. If you want to cut through the hype and understand what’s really going on, be sure to read this thread. Nice job, Rowan!
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Rowan Cheung
6 months
So, Elon is suing OpenAI partly because he believes OpenAI's Q* model has a strong claim to being AGI. Q* is OpenAI's secret breakthrough that was leaked during Sam Altman's ousting in November. It's mostly still unknown, but here’s everything we know about Q* so far:
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“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.” -- @MatthewBerman @datadoghq 🧵👇
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@BrianRoemmele AI is getting really good . . . almost convincing.
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Toss 'em in the blender; together with other fruits and protein, they make great smoothies.
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Sam Altman
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i love summer in the garden
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🚀 Winner Alert, Must Watch! 🎉 @MistralAI Large 2 outshines Claude-3.5 Sonnet and Llama-3-405b! 🏆✨ Leading the @MatthewBerman rubric. 🥇 Exceptional coding, razor-sharp replies, and top-notch moral judgment! 💪🔥
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@ID_AA_Carmack @SpaceX John, this moment made me cry. Thanks for sharing @ID_AA_Carmack and @elonmusk . Future hope!
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